Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael S Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 22:58:56 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <20240603225856.0000679d@yahoo.com> References: <20240602110213.00003b25@yahoo.com> <20240602162914.0000648c@yahoo.com> <20240603120043.00003511@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:58:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9053c0190b599625b3548cfb8a0ee46e"; logging-data="39740"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX190R8YdU2eXE4QFkTerwGp8mUPgWTqXt44=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:UB8HK116JpqQAsTjHbFmma7bI8c= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.34; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 2223 On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:50:50 GMT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > David Brown writes: > > > >1. Most well-known RTOS kernels have a history stretching back to > >the previous century. C++ was not nearly as viable an option at > >that time, for a great many reasons. > > I would disagree with this. The Chorus microkernel (Chorus Systemes, > later purchased by Sun) was started in the late 1980's and was > written in C++ (with a small set of assembler functions). This was > using Cfront (2.1 and later 3.0). I'm pretty sure it is still in > use. This was long before templates, exceptions or the standard > library. > If Chorus is your idea of well-known then I wonder what you call obscure.